[LAU] The Psychology of Music

[david]

On 02/20/2013 02:57 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing bad with playing chess, but it’s
> just a game and playing chess doesn’t give super cow powers.
> Being active  does train our creativity, brains and muscles.
> Questionable if boxing or playing chess, is the more active exertion.
>
> There’s also nothing bad with inland water fishing.  Also called a
> sport, but a sport with being less active.
>
> The rule is: “You snooze, you lose.” It’s not important what we like to
> do,  it’s important that we do something.
>
> Listening to music A isn’t better, than listening to music B.  Doing X
> isn’t better than doing Y.  Where do all this claims come from?
>
> Some people playing chess are creative others aren’t, it has less to do
> with playing chess.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Haakon Lund
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> Subject: Re: [LAU] The Psychology of Music
>
> On 20. feb. 2013 12:14, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>  > On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:12:13 +0100, david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com>
>  > wrote:
>  >> Ah, so IBM's chess-playing whiz computer is also an artist now?
>  >
>  > And it aways was called a "sport" :D. And often it's claimed that all
>  >  highly gifted people play chess :D.
>  >
>  > Perhaps done by people who like to play chess and who wish to be
>  > artists, wish to be sportsman and wish to be highly gifted ;).
>
> Since I love playing chess I should probably feel insulted, but as
> the description kinda suits me, well, who am I to complain?

I also played chess - but we called it a game, not a "sport". But then, 
I also played pool, which is also a game, and it is called a sport. I 
never played golf and sometimes don't consider it a sport at all. Is 
skeet-shooting a sport? I don't believe it's ever been called a game, 
although it originally grew out of hunting aerial game ...

If you think of a game/sport as "solving a problem within rule 
constraints" - I think it would be quite possible for a particular game 
to be an elegantly done and executed solution to a problem.

A musician is also "solving a problem within rule constraints" (if 
nothing more than the musician's determination to express themselves 
using music vs carving a marble sculture).

So an elegantly done and executed game/sport contest could be just as 
much a work of art as a specific musical composition.

See what happens when you turn monkeys loose on the Internet? ;-)

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